{"id":51267,"date":"2025-08-01T00:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T00:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/51267\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T00:21:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T00:21:07","slug":"boy-dies-after-getting-swept-into-drainage-pipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/51267\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy dies after getting swept into drainage pipe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA boy died after getting swept into a drainage pipe while playing with other kids in Mount Airy, an official told 11 News.The boy was with a group of kids playing during flash flooding around 5:20 p.m. on Thursday before he was swept into a drainage pipe that connects to a stormwater retention pond, according to the Mount Airy Volunteer Fire Company.Fire department personnel responded to the 200 block of West Watersville Road in Carroll County.A bystander found the boy&#8217;s body, and he was pronounced dead at the scene.The Mount Airy Police Department is conducting a death investigation, an official said.This breaking story may be updated.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tMOUNT AIRY, Md. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A boy died after getting swept into a drainage pipe while playing with other kids in Mount Airy, an official told 11 News.<\/p>\n<p>The boy was with a group of kids playing during flash flooding around 5:20 p.m. on Thursday before he was swept into a drainage pipe that connects to a stormwater retention pond, according to the Mount Airy Volunteer Fire Company.<\/p>\n<p>Fire department personnel responded to the 200 block of West Watersville Road in Carroll County.<\/p>\n<p>A bystander found the boy&#8217;s body, and he was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The Mount Airy Police Department is conducting a death investigation, an official said.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThis content is imported from Twitter.<br \/>\n\tYou may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.\n<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING | A young boy was found dead after he was swept away by flood waters this evening in Mt. Airy, Carroll County, per the Mt. Airy Vol. Fire Dept. They say a group of kids were playing in the flood water before it happened. We\u2019re heading to the scene now. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wbaltv11?ref_src=twsrc^tfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@wbaltv11<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tori Yorgey WBAL (@toriyorgeytv) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/toriyorgeytv\/status\/1951062444157415438?ref_src=twsrc^tfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 31, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This breaking story may be updated.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A boy died after getting swept into a drainage pipe while playing with other kids in Mount Airy,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[14854,675,39540,39527,39544,39528,39529,39530,39531,39532,39533,14138,39541,39534,192,39543,1024,15757,39526,39535,39536,39537,39538,39539,3,9585,39542,22215,79,13546],"class_list":["post-51267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-area","tag-body","tag-boy","tag-boy-dies","tag-bystander","tag-child-death","tag-child-death-mount-airy","tag-child-drainage-pipe","tag-child-in-drainage-pipe","tag-child-in-pipe","tag-child-rescue","tag-death-investigation","tag-drainage-pipe","tag-emergency-mount-airy","tag-environment","tag-fire-department-personnel","tag-flash-flooding","tag-group","tag-mount-airy","tag-mount-airy-child-death","tag-mount-airy-child-rescue","tag-mount-airy-emergency","tag-mount-airy-investigation","tag-mount-airy-police","tag-news","tag-official","tag-other-kid","tag-p-m","tag-science","tag-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}